I think this is as easy as it gets for non-threaded setups. I like threads, but I'm not only in the minority, but OVERWHELMINGLY in the minority. Liking threaded or not is a matter of preference, not of inherent easiness/difficulty - completely subjective. No reason to acomodate a radically different subjectivty at the expense of most current users.

In terms of table locking - the locking is just one very small table. And for that matter you could create a single non-isam table allowing record locking just for keeping track of posts.

I don't like larger (which may just be my personal interface squick) but having them at either end of the line or on their own line might make them more visible.

Own line and bold? (I'm seriously just tossing ideas into the wind here.)

Do you guys need to take the trouble to accomodate non-posters? No one here has complained of trouble, and we're not exactly reticent when it comes to that.

I say, they want to piggyback on our content while snotting about shit that's really easy? Screw 'em.

I say, they want to piggyback on our content while snotting about shit that's really easy? Screw 'em.

Yup. I think my new motto is going to be "What would Jaye do?"

It took me a couple of days to get used to this board style, coming from that cascading thread style of discussion, but I'm so used to it now, I find the cascading thread style distant and impersonal.

in love with Shawn.

writing up a challenge to Bob.

Do you guys need to take the trouble to accomodate non-posters?

Maybe they're non-posters because they couldn't work out how to get around.

Perhaps, but where do you limit usability concerns? The universe of possible users or...the users?

Maybe they're non-posters because they couldn't work out how to get around.

I'd just as soon they lurked for a bit and got the hang of thangs before they they posted.

It's an incredibly clean and easy-to-navigate board. I vote: don't mess with what's working.